FTA-TV First Dates - Part 6 - More episodes & series than you can poke with a suggestive mushroom

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Everglades National Park​

1947 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Harry S. Truman

 

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• 1955 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers wins "$64,000 Question" with topic of boxing

 

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^that is the equivalent to about 750k today

 

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• 1956 Against the background of the Soviet invasion of Hungary the nations square off at the Melbourne Olympics in a famous water polo match; game called off with Hungary leading 4-0 and near riot halted by police; Hungary goes on to win gold medal

 

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Australian Win Swim Relay​

1956 Australian women's 4 × 100m freestyle relay team of Dawn Fraser, Faith Leech, Sandra Morgan & Lorraine Crapp swim world record 4:17.1 and beat powerful US team to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics

 

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Mandela Arrested​

1956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa

 

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Johnson's 31 Medal Recipients​

1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson confers Presidential Medal of Freedom on 31 recipients selected by JFK, including: contralto Marian Anderson; diplomat Ralph Bunche; cellist Pablo Casals; Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; labor leader George Meaney; architect Mies van der Rohe; pianist Rudolf Serkin; writers E. B. White and Thorton Wilder; and painter Andrew Wyeth; as well as posthumously to JFK himself, and Pope John XXIII

 

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• 1964 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV

 

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Rolling Stones at Altamont​

1969 300,000 attend free concert featuring The Rolling Stones in Altamont, California; the event is marred by violence and four deaths


Holy shit, why have I not heard about this before.
Crazy

 

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Gerald Ford VP​

1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro Agnew who resigned over corruption allegations

 

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• 1982 Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry

 

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Hussein Releases Hostages​

1990 Saddam Hussein announces release of all foreign hostages

 

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Michael Jackson Collapses​

1995 Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special

 

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• 1995 6th Billboard Music Awards: TLC & Hootie & The Blowfish win

They did have some good songs

 

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Avatar: The Way of Water​

2022 James Cameron's sci-fi film sequel "Avatar: The Way of Water" starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña premieres in London

 

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• 2022 The 1,574th - and last - Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off of production line in Everett, Washington [1]

 

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Baby Face Nelson(1908-1934)​

American bank robber and gangster who killed more FBI agents than any other criminal, born in Chicago, Illinois

 

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Satoru Iwata(1959-2015)​

Japanese video game designer, President and CEO of Nintendo (Nintendo DS and Wii), born in Sapporo, Hokkaido

 

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How fitting my av is Yoshi

 

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A Boogie wit da Hoodie(27 years old)​

1995 American rapper (Hoodie SZN), born in The Bronx, New York

 

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Um...

 

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Right.

 

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I think I'm going to buy a magazine subscription for myself. WHy not.

Marie Claire = $70 for the year.

 

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I never buy nothing for myself.. will be nice to get something in the mail that isnt a bill